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Letters Patent No. 90,418, dated May 25, 1869.

POCKET-clase Fon RAILROADJSCHEDULES,

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making pan: of the saune.

com panying drawin gs, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates tor a new and useful improvement for facilitating the transaction of business on railroads and at railroad-stations, whereby much time and trouble are saved; and consists in arranging in `a compact 4manner a list of stations on any railroad, a passenger and freighttariff and time-table, with classitication of freight enclosed in separate compartments, in a case of convenient and novel construction, as willbehereinafter more fullyv described.

In the accompanying plate of drawings-- Figure l represents the case open, vshowing 'a portion of the contents, the method of their arrangement, and manner of constructing the case.

' Figure 2 represents the case open in another position, the two figures being in perspective.

Figure 3 is a cross-section through the case and its contents.

Similar letters of 'reference indicate corresponding pms A is the case,'which is made in sections, or compartments, `hinged or pivoted together, and consists of five sections, more or less, one of which contains a4 schedule of mail-stations on the road, while on the back oftheadjacent section is a time-table for Inail and freight-trains. Another compartment, or section,

The -lists of stations are on printed slips of paper,

pasted in the bottoms of the compartment, while the time-tables and tariffs of freight and passengers are on separate slips for each station. y slip corresponds with and is placed opposite the list of stations. All the tariif-slips are clasped together and fastenedgto the case at their bottom ends, as seen at B B .in thev drawing. B B also shows the manner of their arrangement. 4 Y

The classification of freight is contained i'n one of the sections, and isl more in the-book-form.

With the schedules, tariffs, time-tables, and freightclassifications, thus arranged and placed in their opposite sections, or compartments in .the folding case, all

`the information in reference to the general business of a railroad may readily be carried in the pocket.

The crossfsection, fig. 3,' shows the case as folded up, but it will bev seen that there is a great deal of spare or Waste room.

Acase of proper size for containing all the informal The -case -A,composed of several sections, hinged. together, and constructed and arranged substantially as andfor the purpose specified. i

' SIDNEY E. ALLEN.

Witnesses ALBERT JOHNSON, Trios. W. YOUNG.

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